Our habits, addictions and social behaviours often mask our basic human need for love and acceptance. Sometimes being open about our true feelings and desires breaks down barriers and offers more connection. Today’s poem is about taking the risk of showing up and sharing how you really feel. It is a theme which I revisit a lot in my posts. What does your soul ache for?
Onion
What’s behind the busy?
What can you not face?
What’s behind the constant need
To have things in their place?
What’s behind the guilt trip?
The beating yourself up?
What’s behind the ritual
Of filling up that cup?
What’s behind the bingeing
The weight loss and the gambling?
What’s behind the chocolate fix
The climbing up, the scrambling?
What’s behind the Selfies,
The updates and the status?
What’s behind the need for speed,
The cool,new apparatus?
What’s behind appearances?
Your anti-ageing lotion?
What’s behind the collagen,
The phony self-promotion?
What’s behind the overtime
The need to show success?
What would be the price to pay
To not look at your best?
What’s the you behind the face,
Behind all those distractions?
What does your soul ache for now?
Our roles are but a fraction…
What’s the risk of opening up?
And why the need to cling?
What is there when you peel back
That fragile onion skin?
Published by Sam Allen Creative Coach
As well as being a poet, highly-sensitive being and self-confessed Crazy Cat Lady, I am a Creative Leadership Coach, Trainer and Team Coach with considerable experience in coaching clients in the Creative, Manufacturing, and Pharmaceutical sectors.
I specialise in helping individuals and teams to work past limiting beliefs, to think outside-of-the-box and to show up as conscious, inspiring and dynamic leaders. I am passionate about helping leaders to show up authentically and I design and co-lead bespoke Conscious Leadership programmes for FMCG organisations wishing to create opportunities for their employees to shine and truly maximise their potential.
In addition, I co-facilitate Happy Teams workshops, helping remote teams to build trust and connect to their strengths, purpose and vision in playful, creative and experiential ways.
A co-active coach with PCC accreditation from the ICF, I am also Leadership Circle Profile certified and ORSC trained. I graduated from the CTI Inner Leadership programme in February 2020 and know from firsthand experience what it means to do the deep, inner work needed for personal growth. I hold a BA in French and Drama and a PGCE in Modern Foreign Languages.
Throughout my coaching career I have empowered individuals to write books, make life-affirming career changes, overcome anxiety and to take giant leaps towards heightened self-realisation, increased authentic leadership presence and spiritual growth. An ex-lawyer and C-suite executive client recently shared that she had “never experienced anything so powerful” and that she is now able to “trust her truth”. One global client team leader reported being “touched, motivated, encouraged and brimming with energy” and another shared that his team was able to “demonstrate their creativity and really get behind their vision”.
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Peacock Poetry 
I do love this, Sam.
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Thanks Ann! 🙂
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Wow. That’s a great poem. I could read that daily- as a reminder to myself. ❤😀
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Thanks so much Janet. I really appreciate you connecting with my poem 🙂
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Very interesting poem. We all wear several different faces – according to who or what we are dealing with. I often hide behind a wall and others think I am shy and reserved (which I am not). It would take some peeling to get to the real me, I guess. I suppose you could call me strong willed, stubborn, and a private person. We are all complicated creatures.
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That we are. I think I am a bit of a chameleon and save my vulnerability for those I trust. I find you change throughout your life though too.
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Yes Sam we are constantly changing. I save my true self for those I trust. Takes time to trust someone.
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Yep definitely. Trust cannot be forced or preempted
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I love this!
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Thank you! 🙂
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Great message!
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Thank you 🙂
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love the message, and to be true to who we are and not be afraid to reveal ourselves I have found for myself has come with growing older. wonderful words.
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Thank you am happy that you could relate to my poem and wish you a great day ahead!
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